From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 26 19:13:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6FB1065672 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from smtp.infidyne.com (ds9.infidyne.com [88.80.6.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF7813C455 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from c-a916e555.03-51-73746f3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (c-a916e555.03-51-73746f3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [85.229.22.169]) by smtp.infidyne.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D580D37C36; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:13:54 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Schuller To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:15:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47C44420.6050009@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <47C44420.6050009@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1454992.IdXg8izbK8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200802262015.19683.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Cc: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: why vimage? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:13:56 -0000 --nextPart1454992.IdXg8izbK8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > some people have asked me why I would want vimage.. > The answer is because it allows you to do lots of things easily > that are hard to do normally. I find it strange that people would ask this. To me, this is the type of=20 killer feature that I want to see in my favorite operating system, from a=20 user/syadmin perspective. There are several reasons why jails are preferabl= e=20 to xen/vmware/etc. There are also several reasons why they are not. This=20 project eliminates a good chunk of those latter reasons. ipv6 support is long-awaited for me personally. The ability to provide more= =20 complete VPS functionality (including firewall rules) is most definitely=20 desired. Arbitrary setups like the one you descripted are also useful (I ha= ve=20 an actual use-case for this at home where I have not yet bothered connectin= g=20 some equipment due to the complexity of doing it - vimage would help a lot). I cannot comment on the commit policies or internal technical reasons for n= ot=20 including it yet, but you definitely have my "I want it" vote from the=20 user/sysadmin perspective. =2D-=20 / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org --nextPart1454992.IdXg8izbK8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHxGVHDNor2+l1i30RAlLcAKDu/fE8KMSb/V5JmZFhfkTGPQ3CFQCfZoz3 mKXCorZDTxtAMrx6YkvjNzo= =FkO2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1454992.IdXg8izbK8--